Figure 3

Posterior predictive check. Panel a and b: Predictive distribution of the number of consecutive swabs in which the same serotype was detected for non-vaccine (panel a) and vaccine (panel b) serotypes. Panel c: predictive distribution of the serotype-specific average prevalence given detection of the serotype in the school. Boxplots give quantiles 2.5%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 97.5% of the distributions; circles indicate observed values. The predictive distributions are derived from 700 epidemics simulated with transmission parameters drawn from the posterior distribution.